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QUOTE OF NOTE: "I am probably opposed to the rougher edges of the Republican revolution, but I feel that the Republican Party is the best place for people like myself and my neighbors who live on the southwest side of Chicago...
...broad strokes as an obnoxious group of loudmouthed, thick-waisted jocks speaking with an accent that sounds more Brooklyn than Boston. Ethel, burdened by several babies dangling from various parts of her body, is crudely portrayed as a birthing machine ready to "drop" a new Kennedy whenever possible. These rougher Kennedy sorts serve to emphasize Jackie's unique brand of refinement and grace, qualities that helped secure her place in America's heart and (as the play insists) the White House as well...
...necessary. Noise/Funk is a historical work, tracing the black experience from slave times to the present through tap dancing, and much is expressed in the songs that Glover dances to. Gospel/Hip-Hop Rant is one of the best tracks here, deftly juxtaposing the pleading, lamenting sounds of gospel with the rougher, younger sounds...
...living, know one another's business, tend to their green squares of land and (most of the time) love America. Take the Long Island Rail Road from Manhattan, and you understand these places at once. After the conductor calls out the suburbs, the names of the stations get rougher: "Patchogue!" "Moriches!" You are too far east to commute to the city and not far east enough, or rich enough, to occupy what a young woman here calls "those houses that nobody lives...
Onscreen and off, Grant's shtick is to stammer; words are land mines around which he stumbles nonchalantly. Even with a script, Grant has a rougher time getting through a sentence unharmed than anyone since Jimmy Stewart. And so, in his weeklong mass-media confession, it took a while for him to become sure of himself--sure, that is, of the Hugh Grant he was playing for the largest audience ever to see him (the night he appeared, the Tonight Show won its highest ratings since Leno's first month as permanent host...